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Originally Posted by Twist3d
yeah. I would rather have all of this stuff in one but the way it's looking I'm gonna have to install everything as a standalone and users are just gonna have to be annoyed with a million different login accounts.
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What we did was rewrite the login and login processing page for our forum. It would see if the user existed in the CMS database and then if it did, it would authenticate them. It would create a sortof dummy account on the forum to store their forum profile information. The admin area was the only part that requires an actual forum login since the dummy accounts' passwords were randomly encrypted strings... I doubt it's secure, but yeah... We just wanted something quick and dirty to avoid having multiple logins. We also have it check some session variables from the CMS in hopes of preventing anything bad from happening.